Safety planning with parents of children at risk presents the concepts from a number of tools such as “Signs of Safety”, “Motivational Interviewing” and “Safe Homes, Safer Futures” to assist those working with children at risk of harm to plan with families for child safety. Participants will have the opportunity to practice Safety Planning with a presented case scenario in small groups and to plan and conduct a safety conversation around a specific area of challenge. Workers can...
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$210LimitedGST free

Safety Planning with Parents of Children at Risk

<p>{image name:“AASW CPD Endorsed Logo” align:“right” width:“100” height:“100”}</p><p>Safety planning with parents of children at risk presents the concepts from a number of tools such as “Signs of

Are you just starting your home visits or have you been home visiting for a long time and want to review/refresh your practice? Either way, Safe Home Visiting will assist you to make your home visits productive and safer. Using realistic case scenarios and participant experiences we will explore and develop good practice policy, procedures and strategies that will help you when you are home visiting clients. We will focus on: Identifying safety issues, determining when it is safe...
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$250LimitedGST free

Safe Home Visiting

<p>{image name:“AASW CPD Endorsed Logo” align:“right” width:“100” height:“100”}</p><p>Are you just starting your home visits or have you been home visiting for a long time and want to review/refresh

Family Group Conferencing is a process that brings families together to develop solutions for the issues that children and young people are facing. In NSW it is increasingly being used in the out of home care system to support decision making processes about where children and young people in care can find a permanent placement. This course will provide you with the mediation skills needed to successfully facilitate a family group conferencing process. It is presented in a blended...
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Assessments are made against units of competency from the Certificate IV in Community Services CHC42015.

Engaging parents/carers while working with children and adolescents has been shown as invaluable in creating and supporting the change process. This course will help participants develop skills in positive engagement of parents from the outset. Participants will learn ways to recruit parents and the existing expertise they hold, thereby gaining a vital ally in participants' work. This course will equip participants with best practice skills and strategies, leading them to feel more...
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$420LimitedGST free

Engaging Parents: Establishing a Working Alliance with Parents/Carers of Children and Young People at Risk

Learn relapse prevention strategies for clients to support their recovery from mental health and/or AOD issues. You will be introduced to a range of tools to assist with monitoring wellbeing. a. Relapse prevention is an essential aspect of behavioural change for clients addressing both AOD and mental health issues. It involves understanding the process of change; differentiating between a lapse and a relapse; eliminating a sense of failure; identifying triggers and developing...
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Motivational interviewing is a framework that was originally developed in the alcohol and other drug field by William Miller and Stephen Rollnick. The essence of motivational interviewing is that it is a collaborative, goal-oriented style of communication with particular attention to the language of change. It is designed to strengthen personal motivation for, and commitment to, a specific goal by eliciting and exploring the person’s own reasons for change within an atmosphere of...
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This 1-day course provides participants with an introduction to the Structured Decision Making® Safety and Risk assessment tools used in the NSW child protection sector. Both FaCS and non-government agencies now train their staff in the same structured decision making safety and risk assessments, enabling all agencies working with families in the child protection system to speak the one assessment language; facilitating more efficient referral and case transfer between agencies;...
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Acquire the knowledge, attitudes and skills needed to increase your ability to work with clients who use and misuse alcohol and/or other drugs. Topics include historical and current drug trends, drug use patterns models of dependence, overview of pharmacology, treatment approaches, harm reduction, the role of prevention, assessment and referral, and crisis management. This course also includes information on services and practical strategies to support workers in the field. At the...
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Working to develop a person’s parenting skills can be a slow and sometimes frustrating process. Parents may lack empathy for their children, or even blame their children for their problems, and they may struggle to implement new parenting strategies. At times this can also be true for foster carers, who may find it difficult to understand the needs underpinning a child’s difficult behaviour. The research is clear: changes in parenting behaviours arise from improvements in the...
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This three day course is based within a human rights framework that focuses on child protection and respectful engagement of parents who are often classified as involuntary. The course comprises an initial two day program, followed by a third day held six weeks later, to allow for some homework between the two sessions. The participants will be introduced to a conversational style that utilises both a psychobiological and curiosity approach to engaging parents. Participants will...
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$630LimitedGST free

Difficult Conversations with Resistant Parents

<p>{image name:“AASW CPD Endorsed Logo” align:“right” width:“100” height:“100”}</p><p>This three day course is based within a human rights framework that focuses on child protection and respectful